The French will mostly go to the polls today for the first round of the presidential election, which will allow them to choose the two candidates who will compete on May 6th for the duty and honor of serving the nation as President of the Republic.
Voters can choose from no fewer than ten candidates, ensuring a plurality of ideologies, programs, and candidate profiles.
Each person can express their preference according to their free choice.
Nice-Premium has followed this campaign as best as it could, giving a voice to all who asked for it.
True to its concept of wanting to be an independent and participatory communication tool, with no interest in representing any commercial partners to serve well, we follow a simple course: pluralism and transparency.
And when we make mistakes in information or judgment, we prefer to make them on our own, without needing sponsors or prompters.
This is why, during this presidential campaign, we have reported on the positions of various candidates without bias and thank the local representatives of the candidates for not trying to influence us.
This will continue for the second round of the presidential election and, subsequently, for the legislative elections.
We do not ignore the importance of choosing the new President of the Republic: whether it is the incumbent candidate or another, many things will change in the national and local political landscape.
The legislative elections will be strongly influenced, a dynamic will emerge in one direction or another, positions and balances will be altered.
The impact on local political life will also be significant; new situations may arise, and different balances from the current ones may result.
This permanent questioning on the occasion of an electoral deadline is a precious asset, the salt of democracy: it is up to the citizens who form the electorate to whom falls the right and duty to choose those who are called to public responsibilities, to confirm or revoke them.
This is the first and most important rule of participatory democracy.
If we have faith in this privileged condition (how many countries have a president or government elected following democratic rules as we know them? Far fewer than one might think!), we cannot help but recognize the value of another principle: in democracy, the electorate is always right because the vote is the act that unites the private person (ourselves) and the public person (the voter).
And now, let’s proceed with the ballots.
